#aliya mustafina

[mustafinaandhergirls]

— I read in one of your interviews that you ask athletes not to forget about their studies. — I am very strict about this. Of course, I don’t ask them to show their diaries, but I am in touch with the school principal. I always tell the children that studying is important, that I won’t let it slide. I understand perfectly well that not every gymnast will become an Olympic champion, but they won’t be able to live without school knowledge. I look at gymnasts not only as athletes, I want them to become good people.

Head Coach Mustafina on raising the next generation.

[anna-pavlova]

society if aliya mustafina hadn’t thrown an amanar at a fuck ass euros

[tutyayilmazz]

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baby alisa starting school 🥹

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larisa is pregnant 🥹

[cecolinapa]

Just stumbled across a recent interview with Aliya Mustafina, and her approach to coaching is a breath of fresh air.

What I admire most is her self-reflective style. When an athlete struggles, she questions her own methodology before anything else. Yet, she knows when to be firm, using a louder tone when necessary to correct carelessness.

[lochlanratliff]

i miss her

[yesdear-fainthope]

wheres that one post that's a reversed gif of aliya's bars and it's like "fig banned this routine because it was too highly scored"?? does anyone know what i'm talking abt or was that a tweet

[alimustafin]

More at https://instagram.com/tarkansarimai?igshid=MjEwN2IyYWYwYw==

[mustafinaandhergirls]

Might just be me being a biased stan here but kinda love that Simone's career as the Greatest Of All Time was somewhat bookended by two names definitely on the list of All Time Greats the sport has seen - Aliya Mustafina for the early years & Rebeca Andrade at the end.

The Holy Trinity of Gymnasts of the 21st Century so far, the three to have a world or Olympic medal on every event, that have a full set of Olympic medals, history makers and icons of the sport.

Just the best 👑

[tutyayilmazz]

realizing alisa is 7 years old now 😭🩷

[triple-to-stag]

Happy 2012 Team Final Anniversary to those who celebrate

[tutyayilmazz]

aliya to her grandchildren: back in ye old days an amanar could get you so far

thinking about the whole "rebe simone and aliya 6-event medalist" stat and like. sorry but 13 years after the fact its funny as fuck to me that aliya fargatovna mustafina was a world vault silver medalist. like HUH?

[an-apple-a-day-or2]

Obsessed with Suni's dream olympic team (from an Elle interview):

Nastia Liukin, Aliya Mustafina, Simone Biles, Svetlana Khorkina, and Dominique Dawes.

[arkhammaid]

Very random but I feel like girl Charles looks a lot like Aliya Mustafina and now I cannot stop thinking about gymnastics Charles

oh god anon, i see it. i totally see it. and i see and hear your vision, you planted something in my mind......

she would be absolutely glorious (and once again be the pride and princess of monaco 🙂‍↕️)

[samkerrworshipper]

aliya mustafina reminds me of 2011 at&t american cup. aliya’s bar routine is literally engraved in my head. that black and purple leo with the slick back pony tail, absolute queen. the 1 and a half twisting double tucked dismount and her piked stalder to tkatchev to pak stalder 1/2 - oh my god i could die peacefully if that was the last thing i ever watched. and dont get me started on her jaegers and pak saltos technique and beautiful lines

her lines.

when i tell you as a child all i wanted to be was her. she was a different kind of beast.

does not getting the recognition in the gymnastics world that she deserved. like i feel like she is not talked about enough

[shirbird]

I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned gymnastics on tumblr before this Olympics, but I am an avid fan, and I think tumblr would get a kick out of hearing how I started following gymnastics:

I’m not sure how it got into my YouTube recommended, maybe because I’m a dancer and watched dance stuff and dance and gymnastics are kind of adjacent sports? That’s the only thing I can think of, because I had never watched gymnastics before.

It was an “Annie vs Whitney competition comparison” video- Annie (she now goes by Jules) Leblanc and Whitney Bjerken were two child gymnasts who were also YouTubers, Annie more than Whitney. If you’ve ever heard of the channel Bratayley, that’s Annie and her family. Interestingly, both of them have made music both while competing and after quitting- Whitney actually just put out an album in March that’s pretty good!

Anyway I’m getting off topic. These comparison videos were actually a kind of shitty thing that people did that took two children and pit them against each other, which nobody needed. I’m pretty sure they were both level 9 at the time, which is pretty good compared to non-gymnasts, but quite far from high level elite gymnasts. But even though their gymnastics was nowhere near the best out there, I was mesmerized by Annie’s bar routine. She had some release moves and it just looked like flying to me.

And that led to what was first an obsession and became an interest in gymnastics. I’ve never actually done gymnastics (besides leaps and turns which are a minor part of gymnastics but a bigger part of dance but I’ve never done acro which is also used quite a lot in dance) although I haven’t given up on it, though it will be a lot harder now because I’m an adult and my arthritis is so much worse. But I know a lot. My little sister does low-level gymnastics and I actually know enough to help her, which is quite fun!

Anyways this was longer than I intended it to be, but there you have it- my interest in gymnastics was caused by me literally doomscrolling. And I have no regrets.

Honestly a crime that the uneven bars final is at the same time as my EMT class

[karafina]

save me aliya mustafina